At 05:55 PM 3/11/2004 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote:
>Gee, was he nominated? Guess I missed that. They're aggressively attacking
>him even before he's gotten his party's nomination for President. That
>sounds like they're worried to me.
Now you are just being plain silly. Of course he's the nominee.
Can Kerry win? Of course he can. He's running against a man who was
elected on a margin of 537 votes.
But then again, Bill Clinton showed in 1996 that, as ABC's The Note put it,
"strangle the baby in the crib." Kerry is the nominee, and now Bush is
going to use his $100+ million dollars to do his best to ensure that this
election is never even close. If Bush succeeds in following the Clinton
blueprint, we won't ever remember Bush fearing Kerry.
The full quote from The Note:
Despite what you'll hear in some quarters, the prospects for the
President's re-election are NOT just about the incumbent.
America's judgment on the job Mr. Bush has done is key, but John Kerry has
to clear a series of bars on national security credibility; likeability;
character; and being a potential good steward of a good economy if he is
going to have a chance to win -- no matter what kind of campaign BC04 runs
or what people think of the President.
So -- as we have written before -- the talking points, the surrogates, the
Web sites, the research and (soon) the campaign ads from the GOP side are
largely geared toward making sure that Kerry gets nowhere near those bars
in the eyes of the American people.
Late winter and early spring, in other words, are the times to strangle the
baby in the crib. (How's that for a Monday metaphor to get your attention?)
>Certainly most of the candidates we've seen 'til now have not been serious
>threats. I mean, let's be serious... Kucinich, Lieberman, Graham, Gephardt,
>Al "Tawana" Sharpton? Please.
Count me as the person who breathed a huge sigh of relief that a few
thousand more Oklahomans picked Clark instead of Edwards, thereby handing
the popularity contest to Dukakis' Lt. Governor and the Senate's Top
Liberal.... see my previous analysis in "Its Official, Kerry vs. Bush."
JDG
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